African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development: Statement of the Africa Women Major Groups

We call on member states to safeguard and protect the rights of women and girls to freely speak out, organize and take action

Read the combined Statement delivered by  Chantal Umuhoza on behalf of the Women’s Major Group during the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development held in Addis Ababa on the 19th May 2017. Download here.

The statement draw attention to and call for strategic action by Member States on the following:

2.0 Adoption and Implementation of Gender Responsive Legal and Policy Frameworks.

3.0 Financing for gender equality and women and girls empowerment

4.0 Gender Disaggregated Data

5.0 Structural and systematic inequalities experienced by women and girls